Literary Analysis Of Sinners In The Hand Of Angry God

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Literary Analysis There are many differences and similarities between “Sinners in the Hand of Angry God” by Johnathan Edwards and “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. However, Hawthorne wasn’t as effective in his message as Edwards. In both short pieces of literature, the setting takes place in the 1700s. This is during the Puritan age, a very condemning and religious time period. Each story involves a minister who questions the congregation’s faith. “Why do you tremble at me alone…tremble also at each other” says the minister in “The Minister’s Black Veil”. He is saying that the people have sin just as he does. Edwards says, “ he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire….O sinner!” He

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